August schilling



.(No Mode-1.)

A. SQHILLING..

8 GANISTER. l No. 295,433. vPatented Mar. 18, 1884.

A WITNBSSES: 8 8 f INVENTOR i xmq BY @www l 8 I A ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.,

` AGUS'I SCHILLING, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CANISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,433, dated March 18, 1884. Application filed November 15, 1883. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST SOHILLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county ofSan Francisco and State of California, `have invented new and useful Improvements in Canisters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a canister having a corner opening and provided with a guide, and with a lid which slides on said guide for opening and closing said opening. With the sliding lid are combined overlapping flanges, at the upperedges of the side ofthe canister, which are so arranged relative to the lid that when the latter is in its closed position prtions of its edge come into such close relation to the flanges that the frictional contact of the flanges and lid tends to retain the latter in such closed position, and at the same time the iianges serve to prevent vertical displacement ofthe lid where it engages under the flanges.

In the drawings, Figure l represents aplan or top View. Fig. 2 is a section inthe plane w x, Fig. l.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letterA designates the y canister, which is provided in its top with a corner opening, a. On the top B is formeda guide, C, which may be rectilinear, as shown, or which may be curved. On this guideis tted the lid D, so that by moving said lid on the guide the opening a can be opened or closed.V The guide C may be made of a separate piece of metal, andsecured to the top B by rivets,

screws, or other means; said guide in the metal composing the top by means of suitable dies. The sides of the canister extend above the top B, and they are turnedyinward, so as to form anges b, which overlap the edges of the lid when the same is closed, and serve, by frictional contact with portions ofthe edges of the lid, to retain the latter in its closed position, While said flanges also serve to prevent vertical displacement of the lid at the points where it engages under the flanges.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent7 isl. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore described, with a canister having a corner opening,of a sliding lid and aguide on which said lid slides.

2. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore described, with a canister having a corner opening, a, and iianges b, of the sliding lid and the guide on which the lid slides.

3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore described, with a canister having a corner openiing,4 ofthe sliding lid and thelid# guide formed in the metal composing the-top of the canister.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SCHILLING. [L s] but I prefer to form AUGUST Witnesses:

W. HAUFE, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

